Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. 

​​Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings. 
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​​We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure SQL DB Connectivity team. Your contributions will ensure millions of users can access Azure SQL Databases with unparalleled security, reliability, and performance. The work we do is crucial to ensure our customers are able to access their data with high availability. You will be working on a distributed system architecture supporting connectivity at true cloud-scale across geographically distributed data centers. You will be working with technologies like Network Protocols, SDN, Gateways and support newer hardware generations. Working with a team of experts in a distributed system, your work will influence the technical direction of the Azure SQL DB service and shape the networking technologies across the entire Azure Cloud ecosystem.  

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